different between weave vs weive

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?v, IPA^(key): /wi?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v
• Homophone: we've

Etymology 1

From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *weban?, from Proto-Indo-European *web?- (“to weave, braid”).

Verb

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past wove or weaved, past participle woven or weaved or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wove)

1. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

2. To spin a cocoon or a web.

3. To unite by close connection or intermixture.
4. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

Related terms

• web
• sew

Translations

Noun

weave (plural weaves)

1. A type or way of weaving.

2. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English weven (“to wander”); probably from Old Norse veifa (“move around, wave”), related to Latin vibrare.

Verb

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past and past participle weaved)

1. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
2. (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

     Weave a circle round him thrice.

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References

• weave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• weave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Verb

weive (third-person singular simple present weives, present participle weiving, simple past and past participle weived)

1. Obsolete form of waive.

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Middle English

Verb

weive

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)